What is "stress fractures"

Usage examples of "stress fractures".

In addition to his shattered clavicle, however, and his dislocated hip, she found a collapsed sinus in one cheek, stress fractures in both femurs, a variety of badly battered internal organs, and at least eight broken ribs.

The damaged elevator, because of the stress fractures, would fly apart and rain debris down onto the planet.

Rumor has it the bigger they build those long-necks the more prone they are to stress fractures.

Baylee recognized the stress fractures running through the cog's mast and sides.

Another e-mail was a cc notification from the NF Quartermaster from a military supplier in Maine that there was a recall on part number MS-239-45/A, due to possible stress fractures in materials that might lead to failure in critical situations.

Diagnostics were showing some hull damage-microcracks and stress fractures in the hull shielding, but mostly in the aft section.

But if it stress fractures it would shatter spectacularly and I'd hate to be there when it happened.

He closed his eyes and saw the nuke go off--the hundred-meter hole at the Wall's weakest point -- stress fractures racing around Manhattan at the speed of sound in steel -- ninety million tons of sea water washing the Wall away as if it had never been.